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The Seaforth News, 1927-09-15, Page 7.Aviation Progress in Canada i By w. LAtixENCE Ll. PACs, At a time when there ha mons than ^the usual amount of interest in the domestic development of oivril aviea- tion, it is of conslyderab.e importanos that we should take serious eog'niz-' ante c the activities of our neigh - 'bars, if for no other reason than that ecompanison always leadls to advance- ment if it is viewed from the correct viewpoint. Canada has recently issued its an- nual report on the progress of civil .aviation in the Dominion during the past year. Tho document, an extreme- ly informative volume of over 80 ,pages, is characterized thiroug'hout by two ,outstandingfeatures. :In the Kst place, its contents '•gives a ,most etrric ng insight into the remarkable progress which has been made in 0. niniercial aviation, and, secondly, the reader is impressed with the 'can- •struotlee peace -time development work which is the:, main function of the 'Canadian Royal Air Force. The Do- minion rightly feels that it should Have an efficiently equipped air force and has adopted the practioe of main- taining this force up to the high stan- dard necessary for adequate;prepar- edness by making it the very main- stay of civil naviation in the laud. The year 1926 will stand out in history as a milestone; in the devel•op- ne meat of civil aviation in Canada, not Because commercial flying was first Tennis Po-pularity Grows Apace do win i at Forest Hill, LI., the English maidens t✓lulu Lni,lanel tailed w the Ladies' Tennis 1 Cup seventeen -year -cid meet, Miss petty Nuthall, sixteen -year ear -old English files, conqueror of Melo=t Jacobs, imi•ooa Helen Willa and Mrs. C,otifrey in progress, ' - introduced last year, for the Holum- " gained ninny friends. Above are shown two youthful picturesque stars of the California girl, Tipper left is a birdsoye view of the stadium with the match be - ion has been a fertile field for the pounds of freight and 4,000 pounds I bebog'te determine the best arrange- 'furthermore, ms equipped with radio f 1 aviation f letters fl d i 1 total 1 ft al standpoint, apparatus for ground communication: 1010 h,.4 .t,nrnne, Iasi. year aaW l lc,•n ncrr arF.a.4. .,...,,, this pioneer rode. 1 I t av-a pan e n the dove-opmon o connneraia o a ars gur NOVEL PHOTOGRAPHY SHIP, , oa s nuenl from the operation -greater advances made and a -more The Sioux Lookout -Ped Lake sery-1h t hie s ivi, year. When, after the armistice, :Curiae Lark seaplane., equipped withjoeptienal type, and ie probably the the Canadian Government faced the. a Wright Whirlwind angina, and nn,tonly machine in the world designed solely for survey work with the pos- ptcblem of civil aviation, it was de- HS -2L type flying boat. -A total od• •oiled that organized air routes were, 257 passengers, : 14,000 pounds of able exception of the Fairchild cabin a for the time being, a luxury which freight and 3,000 pounds of mail were anaplano which, however, is also the countrycould then ill afford. It carried. during the year. being used eively -in the U.S, for 0 os one n is nide passenger carrying. In the Velos, the The lare twin -engine p o ograp -emit evtatron than in any previous and Exploration Limrted using eleeaplane, Velosnis a somewhat ex - universal acceptance of the value of roe was operated by Patrrc:a Airway g was, therrefore, decided' t p bg Civil aviation in Canada fc'r the time being the establishment governmental regulation. Tho first of regular air routes until financial Air 'Board was appointed in 1919 and condition• were better, public opinion the control of aviation was adminie- more receptive and oxrerience had ,'serest by the board until January, been gained in oiler fields. 1923, when the National Defence Act SURVEY WORK IMPORTANT. of 1922 took effect. Under thio legis - ilei for oblique photography the and meathooks for implements, is re- ' p aro 0 b USES CRUDEEQUIPMENT TO OPERATE AT SEA Young Doctor Removes Man's Appendix . With Scissors, Spoons, Safe- ty'Pins and Such London.—Tho successful removal of leategrapher, navigator and inlet the appendix of a ship's fireman off seated in tandem in the nose of Cape Horn, carried out under almost he machine airs have an exceptionally cod view in all directions. In order incredible conditions and with so1s- O obtain the neoeseary angle of vi- sore, a safety pin, spoons, clothespins The c:cisien Inn:; proved a wise one, lation a new department was formed for tadrey ted uaa ai aviation in forest under the Minister of National De- consrsrvaticn, aerial survey and recon- fence, which was made responsible for naissance, and transportation in the all matters relating to defence, in - remoter parts of the country is well clueing the air force. The control of established and airmindedneos is pre- civil aviation is therefore vested in valent. The pioneer work done by commercial organizations, the Pro- vinces of Ontario and Quebec and the Dominion Government through the agency of the Canadian Royal Air Force, has been highly successful. Forest type s ketching and reconnais- c sante from the air are accepted to- day without quesiton as being quick, sC accurate and, in many cases, cheaper than other methods of achieving the same ends. Since this work was first tried in Ontario and Quebec in 1920, 125,009 square miles of forest land d have been mapped by the air method. Further- more, over 1.65,C00.00 acres of forest in Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta are now under constant and regular pro- tection from fire by air. Aerial photo- graphy for mapping purposes, by far the most accurate and cheapest form of eurveyi'ng, has made tremendous Oxides in Canada. In 1926, 70,000 square miles were photographed for mapping purposes and today no Can- edian surveyor willingly undertakes the mapping of any dist. ct without the aid of aerial photographs. Mention has l •:en made of the ab- nonce of a:r transportation facilities in Canada for economic reasons which existed in the past but which are now considered to have been overcome WA a result of the progress of 1926. There are, however, a few examples. of air transportation having proved A marked financial success. Air trans - potation to remote mining camps anti for exploration and survey par- ties has many obvious advantages. It may not always cost less; but, when time, convenience and labor saving r are considered, the air method offers advantages which more than compen- sate for the increased cost. It is in fact of considerable im- portance to note that what are in all probability the only financially suc- cessful air transportation services i'n the world, with the ono exception of the Scadta of Colombia, are Canadian ',developments. These services, which had their inauguration .in 1926, are the Haileyhury-Rouyn line, and that, connecting Sioux Lookout and the Red Lake mining fields. In addition to passengers, mailwas also carried over these routes under contract with the post office. AIR SERVICE RELIABLE. ' The Haileybury-Rouyn service was operabed by the Fairchild Aix Trans- pert Co. upon a bi-weekly schedule, using an A.eromarine flying boat cap- able of carrying seven passengers; The machine had an all -metal hull and was moored out continuously the year round without deterioratary re- sults. Out of 144 scheduled .flights, only three were ,interrupted, the first due to a leak in the lubrication sys- tem o to f the. engine the second to a the Minister of National Defence and is carried out under . his authority. Late in 1919 a series of. air reguia- tione was drawn up and put into effect in 1950. These regulations cover in detail the air law of Canada and provide a complete set of mules which, after the last few years of ex- perience, have pieced in practice to be fundamentally sound. EIGHT SERVCE OPERATORS. Theee regulations provide, in brief, for the registration, verification of airworthiness, and marking of air- craf e, the licensing of airdromes, lic- ensing of pilots and mechanics and the use of,lights for night flying. As ti result of—or perhaps it might be said, in spits of—these regulations, the Canadian aircraft industry can only he regarded as flourishing, there Ibeipg eight aerial service operators, namely, Canadian Airways Limited, J. V. Elliott Air Service, Fairchild Aerial Surveys Go. (of Canada) Ltd., -Fairchild Air Transport Cm, Ltd., Northern Syndicate Ltd., Pacific Air- ways Ltd., Patricia Airways Ltd., and Western Canada Airways Ltd. There is a limited amount of air- craft manufacturing ,carried on in Canada the majority of planes being manufactured by Canadian Vickers. The Canadian market for aircraft still draws upon American manufac- turers to a very large extent but last year the Canadian Vickers Co. alone produced the patrol type 'flying boats known as' the Vedette type. This is a single engine plane with h pusher air screw, the power -plant being a Wright Whirlwind air-cooled engine of 200 horsepower. At present the Canadian Vickers Co. has plans for a number of inter - ageing new planes which will, in many respects, make history in Canadian aviation, since they represent consid- erable advances over former designs. The rest of these new designs 1s a general purpose type plane, capable of operating upon'' wheels, penton 15 or stalls.. The machine, which is known as the Varicose, is a cabin type bi- plane with comfortable seating ca- paciey for four passengers in addition to the pilot. The engine is either the Armstrong-Siddeley Lynx air-cooled engine (British make) or the Wright Whirlwind air-cooled radial (Amer- ican make). Other new designs are the Vista, a single -seater flying boat for forest patrol work, a three -seater twin - engine photographic machine capable of operating upon floats, wheels or slciis, and a single -seater forest patrol land plane. The Vista is equipped with. an Armstrong-Siddeley. Genet engine, a five -cylinder static air- cooled radial developing 60 horse- power. With this engine the Vista will be the lowest powered ahplane minor motor failure, and the third by 1n Canada, The plane es of all -metal a heavy snowstorm, during which the construction with the exception of the pilot judged it an unnecessary risk wings which are of wood. Two models to proceed. All other flights were of. the Vista are being constructed, one r rcompletod an schedule time and all with.the pilot seated fossa d of the kinds of geode were transported in main plane and the oche} with the addition to -passengers. The former pilot's Sala in the roar, 'In the for varied from gold ore to doge and cats, mer the engine is arranged as a push - while passengers up to as many .as or while in the latter it is a normal 276 were carried. In addition, 24,060 dueler, t , 'Meet at di* IIWO kypgs. lower wing is of extremely small lated by officers of the Commonwealth span, forming in effect, little moreaon Line ,steamship Port nd Domini than a platform for use in boarding Auckland recently. the maehino, and for attending to the I When it was discovered that Me- wing engines or for mooring the sea- man A. J. -Merton had acute appendi- plane. lents the engines were stopped. Then As in the other new designs of the , pr. A. 9. Hethering, a Now Zealand - Vickers concern, metal is employed ler, the e 5,operfowrmedn theaboop and a almost exclusively in the construebion 1with of the Velos with the exception *0 the ship's officer as assistants, upper wing which is constructed of I A tea -strainer covered with a towel wood. The fuselage (body) is ofwas used to administer the anaes- welded steel tube, plywood covered, l thotic. The incision was made with the tail unit and lower plane are of, scissors. The patient's tongue was steel, while the twin pontoons are of fastened by stleking a safety pin duralumin,. Furthermore, the entire' through R. The wound was kept open external mainplane bracing is of steel by means of bent spoons and clothes - tubo in what 10 known as Warren pins, with the meathooks also used in truss formation; in other word, ,, ,, the process. shaped. This method of bracing` tom The flramau completely recovered. pletely eliminates rigging troubles due to stretching wires, etc. Tho third type, the single -seater forest patrol plane, known as the Vigil, has been especially designed for patrol work in the Rocky Moun- tain district where flying conditions are exceptionally severe, due to the bumpy atmospheric conditions. For this reason tho Vigil is of very rigid construction and in many respects pioneers a new field in the design of forest patrol planes. The fuselage is of welded steel tube, the tail unit and lower plane are of steel, while all the wing bracing, internal, and external, is of steel tube. Thus all rigging troubles experienced in the earlier types used in the Rocky Mountain ser- vice will be eliminated. The Vigil, Was •.Never Treated. "Have you ever had a doctor to treat you?" "Never—always paid for every whiskey proscription I ever got" - When ill Rogers Explained Why s Could Not z .roadcast It has taken two years to uncover the real story of the night Will Rogers made his memorable radio appearance in New York, when for a quarter of an hour he convulsed listeners' throughout the country and the riners at the Second Annual Radio Indus- tries banquet explaining why he was not permitbed to address them. To the listening public, and to many of the linens actually present, Rogers' appearance seemed only an amusing, impromptu stunt, but behind it there as the maiming of a few gray hairs for the cowboy comedian as well as several others. Ineidentally, as a re- sult of the occurrence, came a lasting. respect for Will Rogers on the part of certain persons. P,,p�ul B. Klugh, of Chicago, the Ex- ecutive Chairman of the National i3roadcasters' Association, thus tells the story: "It was in the afternoon, about 4 o'clock," he said. "I was presiding at the annual meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters. A note was handed me from Major J. Andrew White, reading, 'Rogers has run out on us. What shall we do?' "There we were, two houro from our banquet, covers laid for 1,600 at the Commodore Hotel and twenty-six large broadcasting stations in all parts of the country were to go on the air at 9 o'clock with our program, the largest single broadcast up to that time. United States Senator Dill of Washington and Commander Donald B. MacMillan, the explorer, were our speakers, with a longlist of distin- guisher radio entertainers, topped by the star, Will ,Rogers. Of course everybody wanted to hear Rogers on a national chain broadcast. "I stepped out of the meeting for a hurried conference with Al Grebe, the banquet treasurer, and Major, White. Negotiations with Rogers were checked up and found to have gone back over a period of three months. Different men interested in radio had talked to him and' he had consented to speak for fifteen min- utes. "Some one expressed the thought that Rogers had led us into a pocket and at this late moment withdrawn on In the Lorna Daces Country. A couple orf miles or so, and you ars in the heart of the Doane Country. No amount of historical or antiquarian, arugment sbrould induce you to believe that the Dowses, did not exist, as teas been basely suggested, of you har- bor the ghost of a 'shadow of such a suspicion in your mind It were better that you . turuodt your back an the Dooms Country, drat land of romance, and hurried off to civilization. From, the poses of innumberale editions of BlacLmores immortal story Lorna Doone comes out of challenge and sl- feat your scepticism even as girt Tan Ridd drefeeted Carver Doone. The noveliet's grandfather, the Rov. John Blackmore, who lived from 1764" to 1842, was rector of Oare, to which he was appointed in 1809, as well as, of Combe Martin, which we shall present- ly visit, where be took charge, as the system of pluralism permitted, in 1833. Says _ Mr, Snell, in a volume which ssouid stand shoulder to shoul- der with "Lorna Doone" on the shelves of every gentleman's library: "At Oars recto., the futuna re. marcor passed blissful Udlidays, roam- ing at will in the North Devon fields and lanes, and drinking 10 quaint lore, ccn•veyod in the bread, kindly accent of the North De'voin folk." Oare Church has nothing of archi- tectural value to attract; even Hardy would have made little omit. It is a atone building high above the road, and consisted originally ' of a porch, V. AWN and a battlemented tower,alit standing in a slopping churchyard. Among the tablets is one to Nicholas Snow, who lived in the house 01ard by; there is an abundance of plaster and whitewash that would have horrified the late Sir William St. John Hope; there are crude paintings of Moses and Aaron; and a stone with three plumes in high relief to show the theory that he ought to he "Ai that the Prince of Wales was there in for his services. It was decided that 1863: and there is a set of command - Mi'. Grebe and Major White go over ments which begin at the fourth, num- and catch Rogers as he finished his hors one, two, and three having die performance at the New appeared with a portion of the board, afternoon p xapparently as though the folk of Oare Amsterdam Theatre. had no use for them. Let us be. thank- "When hank"When they reached the dressing ; fun that they have use for the other room Rogers was just coming off the seven. A plain setting truly for on0. stage in his well-known eowboy make - !of the most thrilling incidents in old up. Our representatives explained bo, romancel .. . him the predicament in which he hath "Did the Doone& everexist?" was the placed the banquet, and offered hili a question put by a Devonian to B1aek sum of money if he would go on—all more himself at Ilfracombe, 7116' re' the money, by the way, which the ply eras „Did all the characters d that Sn ssociatmon could command at a a "ADAMSDN'S ADVENTURES"—By 0. Jacobson. '- / - '/ �riUtFr k .� Ho'tb a Little Too Strong. -a a 'Westward leo!' exist?' The qua time. I tioner left 11 atthat, and so must we, "There is where they made the mnis-i or we shall never gat over the ancient hike of their lives. and the true char- i two -arched bridge and mount the lane acter of Will Rogers came out. He that turns into that lank of enchant- refused the money absolutely. Prior mint, the Doone Valley, known tothe to giving his promise to broadcast at natives as Badgewarthy, Bageworfhy, the banquet, he.said, he had inerts a?,oto "Badgery." Little Jan hill, aged contract to go en a long tour which. fourteen, with his buckled small meant many thousands of dollars 14. clothes, will go with you. Take your him (Rogers), and as sorer as his man - you, with you, and your songs i ager heard about his going to broad- k closely to tope - cast at the banquet he had prohibited of proportion, for, sad to say, Black - it, and referred heto a clause in the graphical details more did not stitu cle making his story. contract which gave the manager the • The approach to the valley is as peace - power to stop him}. iful a scene as any to be seen In the "Then came a period of .silence and west ---peaceful farmlands rising on some embarrassment on the part of .eau,i u:de of the stream that babbles the banquet representatives. Finally over anis bubbles over its rocky bed, a Rogers spoke up. He was a showman, white farmhouse whose picturesque - he said.; a showman should be mo- uoss Is somewhat- marred by its -car. sourcefui, and if he could not develop, rugatod red roof and iron outbuildings, a way out of his difficulty he was not pine trees swaying behind, and in the worthy of the name. He scratched (Valance wave after wave et exquisite his head, rubbed his chin, squirmed Exmoor heather. The valley grows ,around, and finally said -he had aiplan• 1 narrower and more wild, and then in "It was simple. He would come over time, for no ono must hurry through to our banquet at the appointed time this delightful scene, you come to a and he would tell the people of the small stream, dashing out of t�: a woods United States seb be could oat speak. on the right, which suggests the fam- e issue o " V i ids" Liston to Jan: "For skirting mound one side, with publicly 'during th d f hie con out a ars' tract. Well, he did this, and those, very little comfort, because the .cells who 'listened to his funny, rambling were high and rst, because the rocks explanation have often paid that of all the entertainment provided by at the foot so narrow, I came to a sitd- Rogers this exposition of his difficul- den sight and marvel, such as I never ties as by far the most humorous talk dreamed of, For, tat I stood at the he has ever given.' ingt nooth'lytoa long almeesiRdthout any break �, com- er i:indrance, for a hundred yards or more, and fenred on either elle with Womancliff, slicer, and straight, and shining. Tho water neither ran nor tett, oar Tourort leaped with any spouting, but mads one even slope of it, as if it had been combed or planed, and looking like a With Midget Molar, Miss plank of deal laid down a deep black Cordery Covers 10,000 Miles in 18 Weeks London—After having covered 10,- 000 miles in 4,s months in a small, 16- ting ent the evening." horsepower motorcar, Miss Violet You still remember how little Jan Cordery, a young ,British driver, is You to het the trees and lmole and lonesome melts mance a reward of hint, back an .hngland. Her trip took her anti steadily faced the hill of water, around the world and included some and making at bad job o1 saying the. of the roughest travel to which a Lord's Prayer, gave himself up—and motorcar can be subjected, foundresent hiofmself Por thernest first ti30.mRae iu bhe iu At the reception given in her honor pLorna.: Ein, et London, Lorin Dewar said: "To -day "The. Homeland of English Authors." we have women swimming the Oltan- net, a woman breading the air pageant, at Birmingham against 13 men, and now Miss Cordery has sat up another. women's record, all of which shows wing -oto es- staircase. However there was no siderail, nor any place to wall. upon, only the channel a fathom wide, and rte perpendicular wails of crag shut - staircase. The increased profit made by ter~: thin restaurants last year must be due to the fact that people have to go on eating in order to drown the band. that women are gradually cot r y their own. 11 is not so much that Qrocer—"W:T.,-.7.t.1::-:,4-,81 that wotnaq man have fallen from their high bou" Clerk—"Tho tate, but that women are becoming long wait, sheGer"Well, some more and more endowed with the ottri. people you ner cplease, no know. butes of skill, ingenuity, and enrage. Yesterday siteomined of the short "The hand that rocks the cradle," he weight." added, "will soon rock the Ship of "-"T"' i State,` ' 1 ''1l' "Didn't yofiyour sl; {„acs Miss Cordery's itinerary included a Tommy?" "!pitta my littletrip from the Channel Torte to Marr+rorotl3didl'wllat are g�oyuu y 1 ,,. assay and Algeria, assess looki:IQ:: for now?" MY little brotu- cioviolb from Wkemantle er," India, tltroulsu to Sydney in Australia, a� across the Ita0.1"F r (to witness3—"1)ld yen ear passbed Braves. lith and her c" o 1n1fiippt irnt ma," 'k6 pantnns traveled with a minimum of I that a... luggage, subsisting on canned goods an .hot01 jtlgt p" g Ij Oo anybadyT dad -other food purchased as they went Witness—" No; T Said a' 'ilii, criers. *long. ,,;.,- eaosd studs could."